THE REST OF THE STORY - Rev. Paul Dodenhoff
2017-07-23 10:30 - 11:30 (America/New_York) | Englewood, 07631, United States
Please join us for today’s service led by Rev. Paul Dodenhoff. Do those four gospels – Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John – give the full story of Jesus of Nazareth? Join us today as we consider why some of the other gospels didn’t make it into the commonly accepted Christian scriptures and consider what we might learn from them today.
Bring a friend and stay for cofee and light refreshments. We look forward to seeing you!
Poster by: Liandra Pires

THAT HAPPINESS THING - Rev. Paul Dodenhoff
2017-07-16 10:30 - 11:30
Please join us for today’s service led by Rev. Paul Dodenhoff. Are you happy? How happy are you? What is happiness anyway, and can we ever really be truly happy? We’ll be happy if you join us today as we consider this topic that seems to be constantly on our minds!
Bring a friend and stay for coffee and light refreshments. We look forward to seeing you!
Poster by: Liandra Pires

UUCP Racial & Social Justice Team Meeting
2017-07-09 12:00 - 13:00
Our monthly Racial & Social Justice Team Meeting is scheduled for Sunday, July 9 in our Meeting room at The Historic Lydecker Homestead, 228 Grand Ave. in Englewood at 12:00 p.m.

Proposed Agenda

– Greetings and check in;

– Report & discussion: Health Care and plan for a public meeting;

– Report & Discussion: Immigration facts and issues;

– Other issues and New Business;

– Review of Action Items;

– Adjourn.

We look forward to seeing you there!

A SUMMER MEDITATION - Jon King
2017-07-09 10:30 - 11:30
Please join us for today’s service led by UUCP member, Jon King. Come enjoy a summer meditation. This guided meditation is designed to lead us into a place of well-being, and connect us to a deep inner resource. This meditation frequently leaves people feeling profoundly centered and relaxed.
Bring a friend and stay for coffee and light refreshments. We look forward to seeing you!
Poster by: Liandra Pires

THE ILLUSION OF BORDERS AND THE REALITY OF INTERDEPENDENCE - Rev. Paul Dodenhoff
2017-07-02 10:30 - 11:30
Please join us for today’s service at 10:30 a.m. led by Rev. Paul Dodenhoff. As America begins its annual nationalistic celebration of independence and alleged “freedom for all,” and as the current administration is bent on alienating us from our historic allies, it seems that this might be a good time to think, instead, about recognizing the reality of interdependence among all people on our fragile planet.
Bring a friend and stay for coffee and light refreshments. We look forward to seeing you!
Poster by: Liandra Pires

WRESTLING WITH YOUR ANGELS - Rev. Paul Dodenhoff
2017-06-25 10:30 - 11:30
Please join us for today’s service at 10:30 AM led by Rev. Paul Dodenhoff. You’ve heard of wrestling with your demons. But what about wrestling with your angels? And we wrestle with them all the time. Join us today as we wrestle with this topic of angels and just what role they play in our psyche.

Bring a friend and stay for coffee and light refreshments. We look forward to seeing you!

Poster by: Liandra Pires

THE JOYS OF AGING - Presented by Program Team members: Saritha Clements, Deborah Singer Pires, and Arlene Holpp Scala
2017-06-18 10:30 - 11:30
Please join us for today’s service at 10:30 AM led by UUCP Program Team members: Saritha Clements, Deborah Singer Pires and Arlene Holpp Scala. This service will include personal reflections about aging, the experience of aging as a working woman in the 21st Century, and the joy of working with young people as a septuagenarian academic.

Bring a friend and stay for coffee and light refreshments. We look forward to seeing you!

Poster by: Liandra Pires

PRIDE DAY: A CELEBRATION - Rev. Paul Dodenhoff
2017-06-11 10:30 - 11:30
Please join us for today’s service at 10:30 AM led by Rev. Paul Dodenhoff. Today we celebrate our LGBTQ friends and family and the advances that have been made in working towards full equality for all people regardless of sexual orientation or gender. But the fight goes on even as the Trump administration and it’s supporters try to undo those advances. Join us as we celebrate and as we consider how we can resist hatred and bigotry and work towards full equality for all people.

Bring a friend and stay for coffee and light refreshments. We look forward to seeing you!

Poster by: Liandra Pires

UUCP Racial & Social Justice Team Meeting
2017-06-04 12:00 - 13:00
It’s time to get together again and share our thoughts, experiences and wisdom on the meaning of current events and how to contribute to defeating the “trump agenda”.

Proposed Agenda –

– Brief Check In & Introductions

– Summary reports on study topics

… Health Care

…The Trump Budget

…The Threat of War

– Open discussion

– Action alerts and announcements
– Next Meeting

(other or different agenda suggestions are welcome)

Join us at this important meeting to keep our contribution to the resistance strong and growing.

SHHH!! SOME THOUGHTS ON SILENCE - Rev. Paul Dodenhoff
2017-06-04 10:30 - 11:30
Please join us for today’s service at 10:30 AM led by Rev. Paul Dodenhoff. It’s a very loud world we live in! Taking time just to be silent isn’t always easy or possible. But it’s definitely necessary.
Bring a friend and stay for coffee and light refreshments. We look forward to seeing you!
Poster by: Liandra Pires

DOUBTERS WELCOME - Rev. Paul Dodenhoff
2017-05-28 10:30
Please join us for today’s service led by Rev. Paul Dodenhoff. Contrary to what you may have been led to believe, doubt is a vital part of any spiritual life. Today we’ll talk about the importance of doubt as part of a liberal spiritual tradition and in our daily lives.
Bring a friend and stay for coffee and light refreshments. We look forward to seeing you!
Poster by: Liandra Pires

RUN OVER BY YOUR OWN KARMA - Rev. Paul Dodenhoff
2017-05-21 10:30 - 11:30
Please join us for today’s service led by Rev. Paul Dodenhoff. Letting go of worrying about the karma (or reward/punishment) of others frees us to consider our own actions and thoughts and what they manifest in our lives and in the world.
Bring a friend and stay for coffee and light refreshments. We look forward to seeing you!
Poster by: Liandra Pires

MOTHERS' DAY - Deborah S. Pires & Arlene Holpp Scala
2017-05-14 10:30 - 11:30
Please join us for today’s service led by UUCP Co-Presidents, Deborah S. Pires and Arlene Holpp Scala. Join us in celebrating all who mother, and hear some uplifting stories about immigrant mothers. We will also have our traditional Mothers’ Day Flower Ceremony inspired by an African-American tradition. Lee Tomboulian will be at the piano.
Bring a friend and stay for coffee and light refreshments. We look forward to seeing you!
Poster by: Liandra Pires

JUNK FOOD FOR THE SOUL - Rev. Paul Dodenhoff
2017-05-07 10:30 - 11:30
Please join us for today’s service led by Rev. Paul Dodenhoff. What we feed our soul is as important as what we feed our bodies. Are you on a healthy spiritual diet or are you consuming spiritual junk food? Today we’ll examine what we can do to make certain that we’re feeding our soul as well as our body.
Bring a friend and stay for coffee and light refreshments. We look forward to seeing you!
Poster by: Liandra Pires

BUILDING A CAPACITY FOR JOY! - Rev. Glen Morton Ganaway
2017-04-30 10:30 - 11:30
Please join UUCP today for our service led by special guest speaker, Rev. Glen Morton Ganaway. How much joy can you live with? Building and growing a spiritual practice is a lifestyle. In a mature spiritual practice we construct containers that produce the experience we want to have. We are creative and will create either consciously or not. Creating consciously is what produces the joyful life promised by all the holy books.
Bring a friend and stay for coffee and light refreshments. We look forward to seeing you!
Poster by: Liandra Pires

"THE RUSSIANS ARE COMING! THE RUSSIANS ARE COMING!" FILM SCREENING
2017-04-28 19:00 - 22:00
Need a break from the daily onslaught of terrible news? Then please join us at 7:00 p.m. at the Unitarian Universalist Congregation of the Palisades on April 28th for a film screening of the 1966 cold-war comedy classic, “The Russians Are Coming! The Russians Are Coming!” Starring Alan Arkin, Carl Reiner, Eva Marie-Saint, and Jonathan Winters.

There will be popcorn, candy, and other movie night goodies, too!
Suggested donation.
Poster by: Liandra Pires

WELCOMING THE STRANGER: JESUS, REFUGEES, AND BOMBS - Rev. Paul Dodenhoff
2017-04-23 10:30 - 11:30
Please join us for today’s service led by Rev. Paul Dodenhoff. Would Jesus welcome the refugees from Syria and other nations in turmoil? Would he break apart families and deport undocumented immigrants? There are many so-called evangelical Christian leaders and their supporters who use the Bible to justify such actions. Today, Rev. Paul returns to his Christian roots to examine their claims. And he begs to differ.
Bring a friend and stay for coffee and light refreshments. We look forward to seeing you!
Poster by: Liandra Pires

UUCP SERVICE AUCTION
2017-04-22 19:00 - 22:00
Please join UUCP for our annual Service Auction. There will be a Tricky Tray, Boutique, Live Auction, Professional Caller and more!
Tickets are $20 in advance / $25 at the door
Price includes appetizers and dessert.

Bring a friend and stay for an evening of fun!

Poster by: Liandra Pires

BLACK HISTORY'S LESSONS FOR 2017
2017-04-20 19:00 - 21:00
Please join UUCP for a lecture and discussion at 7:00 PM, led by Al Stawsky, Chair Racial & Social Justice Team; founder and formerly Chair Criminal Justice Reform Task Force of Unitarian Universalist Legislative Ministry of New Jersey.
The lessons and significance of Black History cannot be segregated into one month of the year. At this critical moment in United States history we look for answers which can help guide us to defeat the very worst elements of reaction that have taken power. The history of African Americans is central to U.S. history. It can guide us to those answers.
We look forward to seeing you!
Poster by: Liandra Pires

THE EASTER MESSAGE: RADICALS RISE UP - Rev. Paul Dodenhoff
2017-04-16 10:30 - 11:30
Please join us for today’s service led by Rev. Paul Dodenhoff. Easter is the holiest day on the Christian calendar. It’s also the most radical spiritual message ever given, calling us to wake up, rise up, and fully engage in the work of toppling a system that is built on oppression, inequality, abuse of power, bigotry, and falsehood. Whether you believe it literally or metaphorically, the radical message of Easter and its call to action has never been more urgent.
Bring a friend and stay for coffee and light refreshments. We look forward to seeing you!
Poster by: Liandra Pires

POT LUCK PASSOVER SEDER
2017-04-09 10:30 - 11:30
Please join us this Sunday at 10:30 AM for a pot luck Passover Seder led by UUCP Co-President, Deborah Singer Pires. Instead of our usual service format, we will experience the Jewish holiday of Passover with a traditional Seder. Learn the meaning of Passover and its relevance to Unitarian Universalists.
Bring a dish to share, but please do not bring food items made with pork, shellfish, or bread. Please be on time to be seated at the table in order to not disrupt the service after it has begun. All are welcome: bring family and friends.
We look forward to seeing you!
Poster by: Liandra Pires

Racial & Social Justice Team Meeting
2017-04-02 12:00 - 13:00
The Racial & Social Justice Team of the Unitarian Universalist Congregation of the Palisades is organizing our resistance to ‘trumpism’ and it’s threats to our democracy. Come join us in finding ways to resist and defeat the retrograde and deadly agenda of the new administration!
Join us at our next meeting this Sunday, April 2nd at 12:00 noon at the Historic Lydecker Homestead at 228 Grand Avenue in Englewood, NJ. We look forward to seeing you!

THIS I BELIEVE
2017-04-02 10:30 - 11:30
Please join us for today’s service. Inspired by a Public Radio (NPR) series, hear three congregants, Micki Shilan, Ron Hilliard, and Michael Meyers-Jouan talk about their philosophy of life and how it influences their actions and beliefs.
Bring a friend and stay for coffee and light refreshments. We look forward to seeing you!
Poster by: Liandra Pires

STANDING ON THE SIDE OF LOVE - Deborah Singer Pires
2017-03-26 10:30 - 11:30
Please join us for today’s service led by UUCP Co-President, Deborah Singer Pires. We believe that all people deserve love and respect. No person should be dehumanized through acts of exclusion, oppression, or violence. We have listened to many acts of hatred lately but today, let’s listen to some courageous acts of love, and learn about the UU’s campaign to stand on the side of love to overcome hate.
Bring a friend and stay for coffee and light refreshments. We look forward to seeing you!
Poster by: Liandra Pires

POETRY SLAM
2017-03-24 19:00 - 21:00
Please join UUCP Friday, March 24th at 7:00 PM for an exciting poetry slam. Everyone is welcome! You can read/perform original poetry or poetry authored by others. Love poetry, political themes, humorous poems, rhyming or free verse, and more are appropriate for this slam. Let your creativity flow and join us for this fun event!
Light refreshments will be served. We look forward to seeing you!
Contact person: Arlene Holpp Scala (201) 669-1358
Poster by: Liandra Pires

"HERSTORY: WELL BEHAVED WOMEN RARELY MAKE HISTORY: UNITARIAN UNIVERSALIST WOMEN AND OTHER MISBEHAVED RESISTERS” - Arlene Holpp Scala
2017-03-19 10:30 - 11:30
Please join us for today’s service led by UUCP Co-President, Arlene Holpp Scala. In this reflection Arlene will talk about several Unitarian and Unitarian Universalist “misbehaved” women, as well as women from other traditions who have resisted oppressive systems. ​
Bring a friend and stay for coffee and light refreshments. We look forward to seeing you!
Poster by: Liandra Pires

SPIRITUALITY IN THE SHADOW OF FASCISM - Al Stawsky
2017-03-12 10:30 - 11:30
Please join us for today’s service led by Al Stawsky, UUCP member and Chair of the Congregational Racial and Social Justice Team. Our society has now been placed in the power of those who are intent on instituting extreme suppression, giving license to racism and hate and destroying democracy. What is the meaning of spirituality and the message of our Unitarian Universalist faith at such a time?
Bring a friend and stay for coffee and light refreshments. We look forward to seeing you!
Poster by: Liandra Pires

AN EARLY PURIM CELEBRATION! - Rev. Paul Dodenhoff
2017-03-05 10:30 - 11:30
Please join us for today’s service led by Rev. Paul Dodenhoff. Purim, the celebration that commemorates a time when the Jewish people living in Persia were all saved from being killed by the evil Haman, an advisor to the king of Persia. The story is found in the book of Esther. It’s a joyous celebration with costumes, lots of laughter, noisemakers, and food! Today we’ll be celebrating Purim a week early since Rev. Dodenhoff will be on vacation starting next week and he loves hamentashen! (You’ll have to come to find out what that is if you don’t know!) And be sure to wear a costume!
Bring a friend and stay for coffee and light refreshments. We look forward to seeing you!
Poster by: Liandra Pires

SOME OBSERVATIONS ON LENT, SACRIFICE, AND MINDFULNESS - Rev. Paul Dodenhoff
2017-02-26 10:30 - 11:30
Please join us for today’s service led by Rev. Paul Dodenhoff. Lent is traditionally thought of as a period of self-denial, of the giving up of something like a bad habit or something one enjoys. But today we’ll consider lent as a period when we can practice being mindful of our thoughts, our behaviors, and our relationships with others.
Bring a friend and stay for coffee and light refreshments. We look forward to seeing you!
Poster by: Liandra Pires

CELEBRATING CHARLES DARWIN (BELATEDLY) - Rev. Paul Dodenhoff
2017-02-19 10:30 - 11:30
Please join us for today’s service led by Rev. Paul Dodenhoff. February 12th marks the 208th birthday of Charles Darwin, author of “on the origin of species” and “the descent of man.” Join us today as we consider Darwin’s life and legacy.
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Poster by: Liandra Pires
